Definition of Arbutus unedo

1. Noun. Small evergreen European shrubby tree bearing many-seeded scarlet berries that are edible but bland; of Ireland, southern Europe, Asia Minor.

Exact synonyms: Irish Strawberry, Strawberry Tree
Generic synonyms: Arbutus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arbutus Unedo

Araucariaceae
Araujia
Araujia sericofera
Arava
Arawak
Arawakan
Arawn
Arax
Araxes
Arbil
Arbor Day
Arbury
Arbuthnotian
Arbutus menziesii
Arbutus unedo
Arbëresh
Arbëreshë Albanian
Arc de Triomphe
Arca
Arcadia
Arcadian
Arcadians
Arcadic
Arcado-Cypriot
Arcady
Arcanobacterium
Arcanobacterium haemolyticum
Arcellidae
Arceuthobium

Literary usage of Arbutus unedo

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1854)
"X. Some Remarks on the Vegetable Astringent», with special relation to the Root of the arbutus unedo. (Bull. Général de Thérap., April, 1854, p. 301. ..."

2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1861)
"The leaves of all the large plants of arbutus unedo have become black, ... All the plants of the scarlet arbutus unedo are likewise destroyed. ..."

3. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1861)
"The leaves of all the large plants of arbutus unedo have become black, ... All the plants of the scarlet arbutus unedo are likewise destroyed. ..."

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